1 CE Hour available for NY Practitioners - LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs Live on Zoom! Limited to 20 participants. To allow for depth of clinical discussion and a true sense of our formal coursework, participation will be capped at 20 therapists. Presenter: Maria Laguna, LCSW Given that the United States attracts the largest number of immigrants in the world, the experience of working with immigrant and first-generation Americans is not foreign […]

Interested in learning more about our contemporary psychoanalytic training programs? Open Houses for all programs will be held online on Wednesday, February 8th @ 8pm and Sunday, March 5th @11am. o ADVANCED PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING PROGRAM o FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING PROGRAM o CHILD, ADOLESCENT, PARENT PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING PROGRAM o COUPLES THERAPY TRAINING PROGRAM o SUPERVISORY TRAINING PROGRAM

Psychoanalytic developmental narratives embedded within heterosexually normative assumptions do not account for a maturational line leading to a normal, adolescent gay identity. Although it is impossible to delineate a single maturational line leading to a gay identity, there are developmental themes that recur in the narratives of adult gay men who recall their adolescent years. Some of the themes which emerge in psychotherapy with adult, gay male patients include the invisibility of gay adolescents; the […]